This Is the Day: The March on Washington

This Is the Day The March on Washington This Is the Day The March on Washington is a stirring photo essay by photographer Leonard Freed documenting the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of August the historic day on which D

Title: This Is the Day: The March on Washington

Author: Leonard Freed Michael Eric Dyson Paul Farber

ISBN: 9781606061213

Page: 100

Format: Hardcover

This Is the Day The March on Washington is a stirring photo essay by photographer Leonard Freed documenting the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of August 28, 1963, the historic day on which Dr Martin Luther King Jr delivered his I Have a Dream speech at the base of the Lincoln Memorial This book commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the historic march thaThis Is the Day The March on Washington is a stirring photo essay by photographer Leonard Freed documenting the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of August 28, 1963, the historic day on which Dr Martin Luther King Jr delivered his I Have a Dream speech at the base of the Lincoln Memorial This book commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the historic march that ultimately led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Never before published in book form, the seventy five photographs in this volume were chosen from among the hundreds of images that Freed made in the nation s capitol before, during, and after the march These images not only present us with stunning wide angle views of hundreds of thousands of marchers overflowing the National Mall but also focus on small groups of people straining to see the speakers and on individual faces, each one filled with hope and yearning, epitomized by the beautiful young woman who throws her entire being into singing We Shall Overcome In addition are eighteen pictures from the twentieth anniversary march of August 1983, conveying a sense of celebration coupled with peaceful protest.Accompanying the photographs are a first hand, backstage account of the preparations leading up to the march by social activist and civil rights leader Julian Bond an essay on the importance of the march and Dr King s involvement by sociology professor and author Michael Eric Dyson and an informative discussion of Freed s approach to the photographic project by scholar Paul Farber.

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I thought the pictures in this book were so amazing and I very much admire the photography skills of Leonard Freed. And yet 50 years on the work is still undone, for blacks, women, homosexuals and many other minorities in America and elsewhere in the world.

Leonard Freed's photographs of the 1963 March on Washington have been combined with additional photos from the Twentieth Anniversary March from 1983 to form a book of powerful images capturing these landmark events of the Civil Rights Movement. Freed shows the masses gathered on the grounds of the monument, but he also zooms in on small groups and individuals, and includes shots form before and after the event. Whether it is the sprawling crowd or the face of a single participant, each picture t [...]

This IS the day! The book is a great remembrance of the Civil Right Movement. The emotion of peoples' faces, the amount of people on the National Mall. The pictures are stunning, and included are pictures from the 20 year anniversary in August 1983.